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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 13
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Destruction of Babylon is a type of destruction at Second Coming—It shall be a day of wrath and vengeance—Babylon (the world) shall fall forever—Compare <a href="2_ne/23">2 Nephi 23</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 23: 1 (1-22)."><span class='smallcaps'>The</span></a> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/1b" mark="b" type="E" title="‘Burden’ as used in Isaiah is a message of doom ‘lifted up’ against a people; Isa. 14: 28.">burden</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/1c" mark="c" type="E" title="The historic destruction of wicked Babylon, prophesied in Isa. 13 and 14, is made typical of the ultimate destruction of the whole wicked world; D&C 133: 14 (5, 7, 14).">Babylon</a>, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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Lift ye up a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/2a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR ensign; TG Ensign.">banner</a> upon the high <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 2.">mountain</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/2c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB raise.">exalt</a> the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
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I have commanded my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="‘Sanctified ones’ and ‘saints’ are synonymously translated from either of two Hebrew words in the Old Testament.">sanctified</a> ones, I have also called my <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Joel 3: 11.">mighty</a> ones for mine anger, <i>even</i> them that rejoice in my highness.
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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 3: 8.">kingdoms</a> of nations gathered together: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts mustereth the host of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG War.">battle</a>.
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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, <i>even</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the weapons of his indignation, to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 12: 9 (4, 8-9).">destroy</a> the whole land.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 14: 31.">Howl</a> ye; for the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 7: 66.">melt</a>:
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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pain.">pain</a> as a woman that <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 13: 13.">travaileth</a>: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces <i>shall be as</i> flames.
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Behold, the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of; TG World, End of.">destroy</a> the sinners thereof out of it.
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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 32: 7 (7-8); Joel 2: 10; Matt. 24: 29.">darkened</a> in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">punish</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG World.">world</a> for <i>their</i> evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Haughtiness.">haughtiness</a> of the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/13/11d" mark="d" type="P" title="HEB tyrants.">terrible</a>.
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I will make a man more <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/12a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 24: 6; TG Worth of Souls.">precious</a> than fine gold; even a man than the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 28: 16.">golden</a> wedge of Ophir.
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Therefore I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hag. 2: 6; 2 Ne. 8: 6; 3 Ne. 26: 3.">shake</a> the heavens, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 14: 26 (22-26); Isa. 24: 1; D&C 88: 87 (87-92).">earth</a> shall <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Earth, Renewal of.">remove</a> out of her place, in the wrath of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, and in the day of his fierce <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/13/13d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 12.">anger</a>.
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And it shall be as the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR hunted deer.">chased</a> roe, and as a sheep that <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB none gathers in.">no</a> man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 50: 16.">people</a>, and flee every one into his own <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/13/14d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Lands of Inheritance.">land</a>.
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Every one that is found shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pierced, or stabbed.">thrust</a> through; and every one that is joined <i>unto them</i> shall fall by the sword.
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Their <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Nahum 3: 10.">children</a> also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zech. 14: 2 (1-2).">houses</a> shall be <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/16c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR plundered.">spoiled</a>, and their wives ravished.
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Behold, I will stir up the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 5: 30-31.">Medes</a> against them, which shall not regard silver; and <i>as for</i> gold, they shall not delight in it.
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<i>Their</i> bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Babylon.">Babylon</a>, the glory of kingdoms, the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/19b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB vainglorious grandeur of the Babylonians.">beauty</a> of the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/13/19c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 23: 13.">Chaldees</a>’ excellency, shall be as when God <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/13/19d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 16; Amos 4: 11.">overthrew</a> <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/13/19e" mark="e" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24; Jer. 50: 40.">Sodom</a> and Gomorrah.
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It shall never be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 50: 3.">inhabited</a>, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 34: 14 (11-15).">wild</a> beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/21b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB he-goats, or demons.">satyrs</a> shall dance there.
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And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/13/22a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB palaces.">houses</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/13/22b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB (perhaps) jackals, or wild dogs.">dragons</a> in <i>their</i> pleasant palaces: and her time <i>is</i> near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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